In addition to the physical vulnerability associated with their condition, patients were subject to a financial vulnerability related to payment for care, because they worried about discontinuation of coverage and inability to get further treatment if coverage was discontinued.
Multiple successive periods of eligibility, defined as an observed coverage end date followed immediately by a new coverage start date, were considered switches in insurance product and not a discontinuation of coverage; therefore, such changes were not considered an interruption in coverage but rather a single, continuous period of eligibility.
Individuals may not have had continuous enrollment during the study period for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, a loss of employment, a switch in employers, an employer's switching of insurance companies, failure to pay insurance premiums, discontinuation of insurance coverage, or death.
In the scenario without sexual disinhibition after PrEP initiation, key parameters influencing infections prevented were effectiveness of PrEP (partial rank correlation coefficient (PRCC) = 0.94), PrEP discontinuation rate (PRCC = −0.94), level of coverage (PRCC = 0.92), and time to achieve target coverage (PRCC = −0.82).
Governments and partner institutions have sought to implement a variety of interventions addressing the main reasons behind the low coverage of, discontinuation of, and non-adherence to ART.
For example, the activity spectrum of antimicrobials was ranked against Gram-negative bacteria, with DE defined as a switch to or discontinuation of a drug class with a less-broad spectrum of coverage [ 5].
ProgrammableWeb in its coverage of the discontinuation of Microsoft Popfly points back to a February 2008 article in the NY Times, in which the newspaper talks about Montgomery and Popfly in a positive light, with the product manager being lauded as "an example of how it just might be possible for someone to teach dinosaurs to dance".
The decline in infections was also very sensitive to the PrEP discontinuation rate (inverse of the average duration of PrEP use) and the level of coverage.
Patients were censored for the following events: medical hospitalization, discontinuation of index antipsychotic (>15 days gap in coverage), or a prescription for a different antipsychotic during the follow-up period.
Evaluate flexibility of coverage.
Evaluate the extent of coverage.
